Most Britons No Longer Know How Many Jews Died in the Holocaust
A majority of people in the U.K. and other major nations no longer know how many Jews were murdered by the Nazis.
Onlookers at a smashed Jewish shop window in Berlin following riots of the night of 9th Nov. 1938.
Photographer: Hulton Archive/Getty Images
More than half of people in the U.K. do not know that 6 million Jews were murdered in the Holocaust, with almost one quarter believing the figure was as low as 2 million, according to a nationwide survey of Holocaust awareness.
The findings — showing that 52% did not know the total death toll, and 22% put it at 2 million — were published by Claims Conference, a nonprofit organization that negotiates with Germany to secure reparati ons for Holocaust survivors around the world. Previous surveys carried out by the group in France, Austria, Canada, and the U.S. revealed similar confusion in other countries over the scale of the Nazi atrocities.